Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 4652.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
Pensees (1669) -
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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